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Saturday, 31 March 2007

One hundred twenty-five years ago the Liberty Weekly Tribune’s headline
read: “JESSE JAMES. The Great Outlaw Killed at His Home in St. Joseph.”

His
life and death have been commemorated ever since. Events like
festivals, black powder shootouts, re-enactments and even reburials
bring people from far and wide to remember the outlaw who became
infamous for his 1866 daylight bank robbery in Liberty.

The life
of this legendary man will be commemorated again Saturday, April 7, at
his birthplace in Kearney. The Friends of the James Farm will host a
black powder shootout starting at 9 a.m. The shootout will test the skills of each shooter using a cap-and-ball revolver or Old West-style cartridge.

Thursday, 22 February 2007

"In my time in the South Pacific, we sailors generally welcomed the
night, because the Japanese had no night fighters. That gave us a
respite from the daily daytime plane kamikazes.

Soon that respite was over, because the use of small boats loaded
with explosives became common at heavily fortified Japanese islands
like the Philippines and Okinawa. The only defense against those boats
was turning all the searchlights on the ship onto the surrounding water
and trying to shoot or crash such boats.

A limitation of this method was that we had few guns that we could
train on an approaching boat. Most of our armament was for shooting at
planes, and the guns could not train low enough to hit boats unless the
boats were far away. We had to rely on smaller guns, like .50-caliber
machine guns, and even pistols, like the inaccurate .45-caliber."

Thursday, 23 November 2006

The Pilgrims and
the Wampanoag, under the leadership of Massasoit, formed a pact based
on survival, according to Philbrick [author of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War].

The Pilgrims needed the Wampanoag
for food. The Wampanoag needed the Pilgrims for their firearms, should
they need to defend themselves against the more powerful Narragansett
tribe, which occupied much of what’s now Rhode Island.

“I grew up, like
most people, learning about the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving,”
Philbrick says.But, he says, contrary to what he learned, “It was not a
benign embrace between two cultures.”

Tuesday, 04 July 2006

The war would go on for just under 2 more years, until June 23, 1865, when Confederate Brig. Gen. Stand
Watie (who was also a chief of the Cherokee Nation) rode into Doaksville near Fort Towson in Indian Territory and
surrendered his battalion of Creek, Seminole, Cherokee, and Osage Indians to Lt. Col. Asa C.
Matthews, appointed a few weeks earlier to negotiate a peace with the Indians. Watie was the last
Confederate general officer to surrender his command.

The war was over for all intents and purposes with the surrender of Lee and Johnston in April.

Some then probably wondered if two factions who fought each other so bitterly for so many years could ever live peacefully together under one government, but it's worked out rather well.

Monday, 10 April 2006

Today, some would say we have the so called Islamic fascists against the so-called Neo-cons (both of which strongly believe the supreme being is on their side).Yet, against the background of this global struggle of ideas; Americans are impatient that we haven't achieved clear results in Iraq (the current front stage battleground) after three years.

Friday, 31 March 2006

Can you name the weapon the SS agent is holding? (That was the first time we'd seen such a weapon around the President.)

Does anybody know that agent's name? I know the agent with the pistol (whose light blue blazer can be seen behind this agent) was Danny Spriggs, SS Deputy Director. He can be clearly seen in this image. Jerry Parr, the head of the SS unit of duty, pushed Reagan into the limo.

I'm very tempted to buy these prints, but since I don't have a place to display them, I know they'll end up stored rolled up in a closet or storage unit, along with a myriad of other posters and coffee table photo books I've purchased over the years (which is why I didn't buy a huge book of Vietnam photos which I saw on sale yesterday).

That and the fact the current war gives me more than enough angst, without going back and revisiting Vietnam.